[Faith-talk] A prayer of contentment

[Poppa Bear]

Contentment
  Heavenly Father, if I should suffer need, and go unclothed, and be in poverty, 
  make my heart prize Thy love, know it, be constrained by it, though I be 
  denied all blessings. It is Thy mercy to afflict and try me with wants, for by 
  these trials I see my sins, and desire severance from them. Let me willingly 
  accept misery, sorrows, temptations, if I can thereby feel sin as the greatest 
  evil, and be delivered from it with gratitude to Thee, acknowledging this as 
  the highest testimony of Thy love. 
  When thy Son, Jesus, came into my soul instead of sin He became more dear to 
  me than sin had formerly been; His kindly rule replaced sin's tyranny. Teach 
  me to believe that if ever I would have any sin subdued I must not only labour 
  to overcome it, but must invite Christ to abide in the place of it, and He 
  must become to me more than vile lust had been; that His sweetness, power, 
  life may be there. Thus I must seek a grace from Him contrary to sin, but must 
  not claim it apart from Himself. 
  When I am afraid of evils to come, comfort me by showing me that in myself I 
  am a dying, condemned wretch, but in Christ I am reconciled and live; that in 
  myself I find insufficiency and no rest, but in Christ there is satisfaction 
  and peace; that in myself I am feeble and unable to do good, but in Christ I 
  have ability to do all things. Though now I have His graces in part, I shall 
  shortly have them perfectly in that state where Thou wilt show Thyself fully 
  reconciled, and alone sufficient, efficient, loving me completely, with sin 
  abolished. O Lord, hasten that day. 
    

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